So much for Susan Sarandon’s latest Oscar chances?

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Even for the famously outspoken, politically provocative Susan Sarandon, the actress had a busy, outrage-packed Wednesday.

During the course of a single day, the Oscar winner generated a number of headlines describing how she was feuding again with Debra Messing, aggravating Donald Trump critics and offending the mother of James Foley by starring in a new movie that appears to heavily borrow details from the slain journalist's life and death.

And this was all happening as Sarandon was rolling out the new movie, "Viper Club." YouTube is releasing the original feature theatrically in order to make a push for Oscar or Golden Globes nominations, according to Variety. Sarandon, in the plum role as an anxious mother based on Foley's mother would definitely be part of any "For Your Consideration" campaign.

Wednesday's outrage involving Sarandon began after Variety published an interview in which Sarandon was asked to grade Trump's presidency so far. She didn't give him a grade but quickly suggested he should "start all over."

The 71-year-old actress then suggested the president deserves credit for unintentionally inspiring more women and people of color to run for office. She added Trump had "unintentionally" energized politics.

"We're on the verge of having the governors of Florida, Georgia and Maryland be people of color and one woman," she said.

Sarandon also told Variety conditions in the American political system had gotten so bad that they allowed Trump's rise. She explained the country is in the midst of a "revolution," saying "maybe things had to get so bad before real change actually could happen, so we just have to stay awake."

The "Will and Grace" actress then launched a serious of tweets that ripped Sarandon for giving a compliment to Trump, even a backhanded one, and for her refusal to support Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election. Messing also chronicles the various ways she believes Trump's rhetoric and policies have been devastating for immigrant children, the environment, women's reproductive rights and access to health care, and America's national security.

Messing's feud with Sarandon goes back to the 2016 election when Sarandon supported Bernie Sanders and complained about the "status quo" in an interview with MSNBC'sChris Hayes.

Sarandon said she didn't think Clinton would bring about real change, though she later clarified to say she would "never" for Trump. She told Hayes: "Some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately, if he gets in. Then things will really, you know, explode."

Sarandon responded to Messing's new criticism of her by saying that Variety's "clickbait" headline misrepresented her comments, which she said were much more nuanced than suggested.

Sarandon had her defenders on Twitter, who agreed her words were taken out or context or who said it was ridiculous to blame her for Trump's election. But her argument didn't hold sway with people who are inclined to see Sarandon as a rich, privileged movie star who only dabbles in politics and is nothing more than a hashtag activist.

But even before the Sarandon/Messing dustup could begin to die down, the Washington Post published an interview with Diane Foley, who expressed anger that makers of "Viper Club" never contacted her about using aspects of her story. The film follows a fictional upstate New York ER nurse named Helen who struggles to find ways ways to free her war correspondent son who has been kidnapped by terrorists in Syria.

Foley said she only learned about the film's existence after it was finished and went on her own to see it at a screening Tuesday at the Toronto film festival. According to the Post, the parallels between Diane Foley and Helen, Sarandon's character, are striking.

"It's so blatantly my story," Foley said in an interview after leaving the screening. She accused the filmmakers of lifting actual moments and conversations from her life.

She said the producers and director and co-writer Maryam Keshavarz never consulted her or the families of other journalists and aid workers who were held hostage and executed by the Islamic State, or ISIS. James Foley's 2014 beheading was broadcast on YouTube.

As the Post points out, the fact that YouTube is distributing the movie constitutes "a surreal collision of life and art." The platform was widely criticized for not acting quickly enough to remove the horrific beheading videos of Foley and other ISIS hostages.

Director Keshavarz defended her extensive research and her film, which she said is a work of fiction inspired by "real-life" events. The Post points out that Keshavarz and others involved in the film were under no legal obligation to consult Foley.

But with an increasing number of films and TV shows based on real-life events, it's become common for such consultations to take place.

It's also common to read about stars like Sarandon meeting up with the real-life people whose lives they'll emulate. For her 1995 Academy Award-winning role in "Dead Man Walking," Sarandon spent time with death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean, and the two later collaborated on advocacy to end capital punishment.

"Dead Man Walking," by the way, was Sarandon's first and only Oscar. But she had been nominated four times previously, and has been nominated since for numerous other awards, including Golden Globes and Emmys.

With Sarandon's pedigree, it makes sense that YouTube would see her as their ticket to Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, and the platform has promoted her as giving a tour de performance that anchors the film.

But the film, which will be released theatrically on Oct. 26 and made available on YouTube premium, is now mired in controversy surrounding its production. Sarandon's political scuffles with Messing also can't help but serve as a distraction.

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In the end, the film's chances during awards season will depend on how good it is. So far, the limited reaction from the Toronto Film Festival is luke-warm, including for Sarandon.

The Hollywood Reporter called the film "heartfelt if rather generically made." Variety's more positive review said Sarandon offers "an empathetic turn ... as an anxious mother."

But in the end, Variety said, "Viper Club" doesn't do "quite enough to render this subject as compelling as it should be."

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